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Chicken Pox is actually a viral infection and is spread by the droplets from mouth or nose of an infected person. It may also spread through direct contact of the chicken pox before they've scabbed over. If your brother has already had the chicken pox then he is immune to the virus thus won't be carrying it around with him. In some rare instances a person does come down more than once with chicken pox, however it is generally since the initial case was quite mild and the patient did not obtain full immunity. If your husband has likewise already had chicken pox, he won’t carry the virus around with him, either. Getting natural immunity from really coming down with the chicken pox isn’t actually that poor and will make one much less immunization for your baby to receive. My kids are older (28, 26, 23, and 10). The older 3 had been born back in the "old days" when there was no such thing as a chicken pox vaccine. In those days, when an individual came down with the chicken pox, anybody with a child who hadn’t had them yet would call and ask if their child could come and be exposed (yes, on purpose). For us, it was just one of those child hood facts of life that parents wanted to get over with. My oldest brought them house from kindergarten, 2 weeks later my 3 year old came down with them, and 2 weeks after that my 7 month old came down with them. With my youngest, the vaccine was fairly new when she was a baby so I opted out of giving her that vaccine to see if she would come down with them and get natural immunity. She did finally get them in second grade. A person is contagious a couple days before the symptoms of chicken pox start, but an individual who has not caught the virus is not contagious.
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